With the publication of Housekeeping in 1980, Marilynne Robinson announced herself on the literary stage as a writer of singular fiction – and then proceeded to not publish another novel for more than 20 years.... Read More...

The trail across the sky retraces periodically, for as a universal force, outside of history, Brown is an archetype or prototype, a meteor that recurs comet-like.
John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd (123)
In The Pres... Read More...

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions;
Joel 2:28... Read More...

The structural and literary symbolism of the horizon/horizontality is one of the most powerful and versatile devices in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead (2004). From an organizational perspective, Robinson car... Read More...

We remain unknown to ourselves.
Nieztsche, On the Genealogy of Morals 3.
Nietzsche places this declaration right at the beginning of his Genealogy of Morals (1887) as an unequivocal statement of fact. It ... Read More...

In 2014, the publication of Marilynne Robinson’s fourth novel, Lila, completed a trilogy of books set in the small fictional town of Gilead, Iowa. The Pulitzer-prize-winning Gilead (2004) first tells the story... Read More...

Since the publication of her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), Marilynne Robinson has built up a large body of non-fiction that sits beside, and in dialogue with, her fiction. Even before her environmentalist p... Read More...

Burt, Stephen. the poem is you: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them. The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2016. 432 pages. ISBN 9780674737877. Buy here.
Over the course of any given year, I recei... Read More...

Elizabeth Abele is a professor at Nassau Community College. She has published essays on American masculinity and contemporary literature. She is the author of Home Front Hero: The Rise of a New Hollywood Archet... Read More...